M 4.5 in Mexico on 20 Apr 2017 21:13 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1110759
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 30.88 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.3924 , -101.7898
Event Date: 20 Apr 2017 21:13 UTC
20 Apr 2017 14:13 Local
Exposed Population:
400000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Apr 2017 21:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008je0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 204 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Expertos llaman a la precaución ante seguidilla de sismos en zona cent ... Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:58:00 +0200.

Al ser consultado sobre si pueden ser precursores de un sismo mayor, el director del CSN, Sergio Barrientos , respondió que "es muy difícil responder a esa pregunta a ciencia cierta. Tenemos el caso, por ejemplo, con el terremoto de Iquique
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Onemi realizará prueba técnica de sirenas por tsunami en el borde cost ... Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:49:00 +0200.

sirenas en el borde costero el próximo martes 2 de mayo. Una prueba técnica que consiste en sonido y voz del Sistema de Alarma de Tsunami se activará desde el Centro de Alerta Temprana (CAT) de la Dirección Regional de la Onemi el próximo m
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ONEMI Arica y Parinacota realizará prueba técnica de sirenas en borde ... Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:36:00 +0200.

24/04/2017 | 12:04 | Arica y Parinacota. Autoridades llaman a la calma a la población. Una prueba técnica que consiste en sonido y voz (adjunto) del Sistema de Alarma de Tsunami se activará desde el Centro de Alerta Temprana (CAT) de la Dir
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Antartide, crollo di una massa di ghiaccio provoca uno tsunamiMon, 24 Apr 2017 17:35:00 +0200.

– Uno tsunami in Antartide : l’incredibile serie di onde alte diversi metri si è formata a causa del cedimento di un enorme massa di ghiaccio precipitata in mare e in pochi secondi ha raggiunto la costa, dove erano presenti alcuni turisti.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),